0 If you flip something, you turn it over quickly one or more times, and if something flips, it turns over quickly:
1 to buy something, such as a house, that is not in very good condition, improve it, then sell it quickly for more money:
2 to make a statement in court against someone when you are both accused of a crime; to persuade someone to do this:
There are cases in which prosecutors have threatened to seek the death penalty unless a witness flips against a co-defendant.
He is a Federal prosecutor who specializes in flipping witnesses.
3 to change from supporting one political party to supporting a different one; to make people in a particular place do this:
They produced a list of the districts that are considered most likely to flip in the upcoming elections.
The Democrats are expected to flip at least two Republican-held congressional districts in Texas.
4 an occasion when something turns over quickly or repeatedly:
5 informal for flippant
7 to cause something to turn over quickly one or more times, or to cause something to move by making a short, quick motion:
8 the act of turning something over quickly one or more times:
9 to sell shares or property immediately after you have bought them in order to make a quick profit:
Big institutional clients of investment banks buy and then flip the shares.
They are looking to flip the property: they buy at the first stage of development, and aim to sell before they have to pay the final instalment.
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